Combined watee filter and cooler



(No Model) B. J. HOWE],

COMBINED WATER FILTER AND COOLER. No. 289,263.

Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE EDXVIN HO'\VE, OF NEWVARK, 'E'W JERSEY.

COMBINEDWATER FILTER AND COOLER.

SPECIFICATTON forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,263, dated November27, 1883,

S Application filed June 29,1883. (No model.) i l T0 (LZZ whom it may007ZC67'7L.'-

Be it known that I, EDWIN J. HOWE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a OoniloinedNVaterFilter and Cooler; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.The object of this invention is to provide a combined filter andwater-cooler of increased utility, convenience, durability, and economy;and it consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts,substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied inthe claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings. in which similar letters ofreierenceindicate like parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 isa vertical longitudinal section of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a planof the same, and Fig. 3 is a plan of a detached perforated sieve or lidadapted to be used in connection with the filter.

In saiddrawings, a represents an exterior vessel. formed, preferably, ofinner and outer metallic plates, 0 cl, of such material as galvanizedsheet-iron, the space between said plates being filled in with plasterc, or other non-conductor of heat. Said vessel to is divided by apartition, 1), into an ice receptacle or chamber, e, and afiltered-water receptacle, f. The portion of the wall of the vesselwhere it surrounds the chamber for the reception of ice is higher thanwhere it forms the chamber f for filtered water. Said filtered-watercham ber maybe provided with an earthenware lining, h, to preventcontact of the water with the metal, whereby said water. might possiblybe contaminated. Above said chamber is arranged a combined filter anddirty or unfiltered water chamber, which is removable from the vessel a,to adapt it to be readily and easily taken from its seat 011 the edge ofthe said vessel for purposes of cleaning or renewing the filteringmaterial an. Said unfiltered water chamber has a lateral contact withthe icechamber to enable the'said unfiltered water to be cooling whilewaiting to pass through the filtering material. Said combined filter andunfiltered-water chamber is constructed as shown in Fig. 1, a being ametallic ves- -sel, having a funnel-shaped bottom, o,.with

a perforation, h, at its apex. The funnelshaped chamber compels thewater to pass through a given thickness of filtering material, while atthe same time but a comparatively small amount of said material is used,and a broad top surface is provided for sediment. Within thefunnel-shaped portion 0 is placed filtering material-such as powderedcharcoalabove which is arranged a sieve, w, perforated to allow thewater to pass through to the filtering material, but adapted to holdsaid material in place. Said sieve to is provided withstrengthening-ribs r, Fig. 3, a suitable handle, 00, to enable it to bereadily with drawn from its seat, and vent-tubes 3 which extend abovethe water-line in the unfilteredwater chamber. When the unfiltered-waterchamber is in place on its seat, as shown, the top thereof isapproximately on aline with the ice-chamber, whereby a more uniformoutline is given to the device as a whole. The icechamber andunfiltered-water chamber are both provided with suitable lids, a r, thelatter being packed with asuitable non-conductor of heat. The combinedfilter and unfilteredwater chamber provides acover for the filteredwaterchamber, as will be evident. A suitable receptacle, t, is arranged inthe ice-chambeito hold the ice above the floor thereof to prevent damagethat might result from a sudden falling of a block of ice. By arrangingthe ice in a separate chamber from the filtered water the ice ispreventedfrom melting too rapidly, while the water is given only amoderate degree of coolness; or, in other words, the filtered water isnot cooled to such a degree as would be deleterious to the health. Thepartition b is preferably curved, as indicated, to enlarge the surfacethereof, and thus gain greater contact with the cold air of theicechamber. Said ice-chamber is provided with afaucet or cook to drawoff, when necessary, the water from the melted ice. A similar faucet orcock is arranged, in connection with the filtered-water chamber, toallow the purified and cooled water to be withdrawn. The lower cornersof the vessel a may be strengthened by means of a lead tube secured inthe packingchamber, as shown. Having thus described my invention, what 5I claim is 1. The combination of a vessel, a, having the partition b,separating said vessel into an ice-chamber and filtered-water chamber,and a removable vessel, u, arranged above the fil- 1o tered-waterchamber, and having the lower portion thereof funnel-shaped, withfiltering material arranged in said funnel-shaped portion, allsubstantially as and for the purposes set forth and shown.

I 5 2. A combined water filter and cooler composed of the vessel a,formed of the inner and outer plates, 0 d, filled in with plaster orother suitable non-conductor of heat, and separated by the partition 2)into the ice-chamber e and 20 filtered-water chamberf, the removableunfiltered-water receptacle n resting above the filshaped portion 0,with filtering material there- 30 in, and a sieve, w, the covers a andc, and faucets g 9, all said parts being arranged and operatingsubstantially as and for the purposes set forth and shown.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 5 have hereunto set my handthis 16th day of June, 1883.

EDWIN J. HOWE.

XVitnesses:

OHARLEs H. PELL, F. F. CAMPBELL.

